Adapting Processes via Adaptation Processes - A Flexible and Cloud-Capable Adaptation Approach for Dynamic Business Process Management

Roy Oberhauser

2015

Abstract

Dynamic business process management (dBPM) is dependent on automated adaptation techniques. While various approaches to support process adaptation have been explored, they typically involve another or some combination of modeling paradigms or language extensions. Moreover, cross-cutting concerns and a distributed and cloud-based process adaptation capability have not been adequately addressed. This paper introduces AProPro (Adapting Processes via Processes), a flexible and cloud-capable approach towards dBPM that supports adapting target processes using adaptation processes while retaining an intuitive and consistent imperative process paradigm. Based on a case study using a REST-based Web Service prototype realization invoking process adaptation patterns in a distributed of Adaptation-as-a-Service cloud setting, the initial evaluation results show the feasibility of the approach and gauge its performance in the cloud.

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Oberhauser R. (2015). Adapting Processes via Adaptation Processes - A Flexible and Cloud-Capable Adaptation Approach for Dynamic Business Process Management . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-758-111-3, pages 9-18. DOI: 10.5220/0005885000090018


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@conference{bmsd15,
author={Roy Oberhauser},
title={Adapting Processes via Adaptation Processes - A Flexible and Cloud-Capable Adaptation Approach for Dynamic Business Process Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2015},
pages={9-18},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005885000090018},
isbn={978-989-758-111-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - Adapting Processes via Adaptation Processes - A Flexible and Cloud-Capable Adaptation Approach for Dynamic Business Process Management
SN - 978-989-758-111-3
AU - Oberhauser R.
PY - 2015
SP - 9
EP - 18
DO - 10.5220/0005885000090018